Questions tagged [premiere]
A non-linear video editing program made by Adobe.
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Does version control have a part in the video production workflow?
I'm a software developer and I'm also interested in photography (for four years) and video production (for a few months only).
■ In software development, there is an important rule every developer ...
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Is it possible to alter the playback *preview* speed?
Is it possible to change the speed of Premiere's playback of the video without altering the speed of the produced version? Even if I could play it only 1.5x faster, it would mean a lot of time saved ...
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Encode settings for HTML5 background video
I want to create a website with a HTML5 video background.
I have a short 1080p mp4 clip that I want to use (20s). I intend to run the video in a letterbox format (5:2 ish), full screen behind the ...
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Adobe Premiere - Restore Audio to A/V Clip After Deleting
Say I add a bunch of Audio/Video clips to a sequence, then delete all the audio (Alt-select it and delete); I work on it for some time, close Premiere, re-open.. etc.,
Is there any way to restore the ...
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Adobe Premiere Pro CC - Crop a video and export at the exact cropped size
I have a video that has 4 up-down-left-right black borders of different sizes.
I want to get rid of these black borders so the exported file has the exact size of the cropped area.
To do this, I ...
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Can't apply transition effect between clips in Premiere Pro
This is really annoying me a lot. I have two clips with the exact same properties next to each other. I usually add a 'dip to white' transition between clips, but somehow I can't apply it between ...
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Is there a rule of thumb for transitions in video production?
I'm a software engineer but as the junior member on the team I was tasked with making a looping demo for our product that will be played continuously at an upcoming convention. The video is not only ...
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How can I merge/link two video clips in Premiere?
Every time I search this problem in Google the only options are how to link audio clips to video or how to sync audio to video clips.
I need to combine/link/merge a picture to a video clip, so that ...
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How do I 'downgrade' an Adobe Premiere Pro project file to open in older versions?
Is there any way at all (perhaps with a plugin, paid or otherwise) to save an Adobe Premiere Pro project file so that it's compatible with an older version of the software? The scenario I have is that ...
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The ProRes of Premiere Pro?
I'm going to be editing more and more DSLR videos, most notably music videos for my band as we start releasing singles and want to know if there is an intermediate format for both cutting and ...
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Losing audio/video sync in Adobe Premiere with mp4's
I have two videos to combine in Adobe Premiere. They play okay in a video player, but putting them into Adobe Premiere CS6 suddenly makes the audio unsynced with the video (even in the Source Monitor)....
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What sequence presets I must use with a GoPro and Adobe Premiere Pro CS 5.5?
I use a GoPro which output is mp4 files.
I want to edit these movies into Adobe Premiere Pro CS 5.5. I'm a little lost about sequence presets to use.
I've got the choice between Digital SLR, AVCHD, ...
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Adobe Premiere is placing a faint 'X' on video transition
I am transitioning 1 video to a still PSD in Adobe Premiere Pro.
No matter the transition, it overlays a faint red x (It remains there, even on export). I have tried everything to be best of my ...
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Premiere - Easy way to extend last frame of a video clip
Let's say I have a 5 second clip. I want to extend it for an additional 10 seconds, but where the additional 10 seconds simply show the very last frame of my original 5 second clip.
In Camtasia there ...
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Adobe Premiere preview video lagging
I am attempting to edit video in Adobe Premiere CS6. When I create a sequence and try to play it back in the preview screen, the video is extremely choppy, which makes editing very difficult (dance ...
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Does Adobe Premiere Pro CS6 have a fullscreen mode?
Essentially what I'm looking for is a way to make Adobe Premiere Pro CS6 go fullscreen. I do not mean the fullscreen preview of the video or fullscreen on a specific panel (like the timeline).
I want ...
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Premiere distorts picture while paused
Premiere is distorting footage while paused, making color grading ridiculously challenging.
Whether the media is playing in the source monitor or the sequence monitor, the picture is pixelated and ...
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Software for video cut automation / scripting
I am very new to a/v editing and need to automate a simple process. Basically what I need is a way for my mom to capture video from her camera and input a series of numbers like
1:02 1:30
1:55 2:34
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Upon export in Premiere Pro, colors lose saturation when previewing in QuickTime
I working on a project that I originally began in Premiere Pro CS6 on Windows, converted to CC, and am not editing in CC on Mac. I was making some minor tweaks to the video and getting ready to export,...
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I'm not happy with Final Cut Pro (X). What are my options?
I'm a editor who has been editing with Final Cut Pro for the last couple of years and I'm not impressed with the new Final Cut Pro X. I'm interested in looking for another NLE, such as Avid or ...
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Is it possible to make changes over several clips at the same time when color correcting?
Let's say I have 30 clips. The first 10 clips are filmed outside at day, the next 10 clips are filmed outside at night and the last 10 clips are filmed indoors. This means that I want to use three ...
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Continuous smooth camera movement in post
I'm editing a small video which got recorded on a really cheap tripod, therefore the Camera movment is really uncontinuous and not smooth.
Any ideas how to make the movement smooth? such a thing as ...
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Is there a way to make Premiere reuse nested previews?
I have a rather effect-heavy clip in my project. I made it a separate sequence using nest from the context menu and rendered its preview to see it's ok.
Now that it's rendered(shows green on top of ...
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How do I get Stereo + 5.1 for YouTube videos?
Youtube states that it only supports Stereo or Stereo + 5.1.
How does this work? Does it mean that there should be two audio streams included in the container or is this a special encoding?
( I am ...
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How to speed up/slow down audio along with video?
I just finished watching this nice little YouTube tutorial that gives one a bit more control on speeding up or slowing down PARTS of video (as opposed to just slowing down the whole thing) using time ...
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Adobe Premiere saves m4v instead of mp4
I have problems with my Premiere Pro. It is first time this has happened, and I cannot understand why.
I am creating a timelapse from my images. When I want to export media, I choose format H.264 (...
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What is the Marketshare of the big three video editing (NLE) software packages?
Cannot find a source to see market share or change for top video editing software tools used today.
The big three are:
Avid
Final Cut Pro
Adobe Premiere Pro (after effects)
I know Avid is still used ...
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Usage of Target and Maximum Bitrate with the H264 Codec in Premiere Pro
When exporting a video using the H264 Codec with a variable bitrate in Premiere Pro, you can set the target bitrate and the maximum bitrate. I would like to know how those work together and if there ...
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Clips appear "zoomed" in program monitor (Premiere Pro)
This is frustrating the crap out of me. I'm putting 1920×1080 clips into a 1920×1080 sequence. There are also some 2560×1440 clips in it, and those actually display correctly, but the 1080p clips ...
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Rearange order of audio tracks in Premiere
Let's say I have the following arrangement of my audio tracks:
x ----------
y ----------
z ----------
and I want to have them arranged this way instead:
x ----------
z ----------
y ----------
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flattening a sequence in Adobe Premiere (collapsing included sequences)
I'm using Adobe Premiere -- I'm trying to convert a project to use a single sequence, with all the media clips in that sequence.
At the moment I'm in Adobe Premiere 5.5, but I have Adobe CC available.
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Premiere 6 - how to add black between clips in a sequence automatically
We have regular fulfilment jobs for clients which require us to insert a few seconds of black between each clip in a contiguous file. It's not a great deal of effort to do it once or twice but when ...
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How do I encode videos into h.264 at 8k resolution?
I am trying to use premiere, but I wouldn't mind switching computer programs to accomplish my goal. h.264 is an amazing codec for exporting videos, it is the fastest I've seen yet. Same exact videos ...
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How to play a clip only till an Out mark in Adobe Premiere?
In Adobe Premiere there are shortcut keys to play a clip right from the In mark to Out mark. Shortcut on a PC is Ctrl + Shift + Space.
However, how can I play a clip only till my Out mark? Not my ...
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How to use mouse drag gesture to position & size a still image in Premiere Pro CS6
I would like to be able to position a still image using the mouse/pointer directly on the image, to be able to drag the whole image around or resize it by dragging one of its corners or sides.
I'm ...
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Is Adobe Premiere Elements good enough for video editing?
I'm looking for an affordable tool to edit video on Windows with the following features:
sharpness adjustment
color correction
noise reduction
stabilization
matching color and brightness between ...
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Repeat a clip down entire timeline
Is there a better way to take a short video loop (in my case a video watermark) and duplicate it again and again down the full length of my sequence than my current workflow?
Current Workflow
Place ...
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How match this broadcast standards with Premiere and ffmpeg
I have to export an MXF file for a program that have certain limitations:
Conform to SMPTE 274M, “1920 x 1080 Scanning with no visible video impairment such as blocking errors or pixelization ...
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How do I change the audio on a H.264 MP4 without re-rendering the file?
Is there any way to swap out the audio track on a rendered H.264 MPEG-4 without having to re-render the entire video project? Can this be done with Premiere, MPEG Streamclip, ffmpeg, or some other ...
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How to extend the captions to an earlier point in Premiere Pro?
I started the captions too late in the video and now I need to extend it earlier, but I'm getting this message:
Is there a way to extend it to the left without having to re-position each individual ...
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Premiere Pro doesn't play AC3 audio stream from .MTS file
I have video clips from two cameras. They were recorded in AVCHD, which I've imported as .MTS in Adobe Premiere Pro.
The clips taken from one camera works fine. The others don't play audio.
I've ...
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How to organize captured footage for documentaries before sending to editor?
I have captured 20TB of footage. It's currently organized as follows:
a separate folder for each day filmed, (example: 11/1/16) inside that:
separate folders for each camera (2-4 cameras used)
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Organizing a Multicam Clip in Premiere
In Adobe Premiere Pro 2015, you cannot sub-clip a multi-camera source clip, which is a shame, because sub-clipping is the most useful way I've found in Premiere for organizing segments of an extended ...
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Can you render Adobe Premiere or After Effects projects on Linux using a render manager?
I'm looking for a way to render Premiere or Edius projects on linux via command line.
As you may know, there are a lot of render managers like Deadline, Render Pal or Smedge in order to build a ...
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Is there a standard resolution for Video Presentations?
A friend asked me to put together a video presentation for his companies national sales meeting. I put it together in Premiere. All of that went fine, but I'm not sure what resolution to make it. ...
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Style all open captions at once in Premiere Pro
Is it possible to style all open captions at once in Premiere Pro CC2017?
Since Adobe promotes the captions feature as a way to edit all captions in one place, I hope there actually is a way to style ...
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Replacing footage to a video with different frame rate - how to make timeline clips not slip?
When I replace a footage to another video file which has got different frame rate from the old, the clips on the timeline slip because of the frame rate change.
If I go to Modify -> Interpret footage,...
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How to smooth/correct sudden exposure changes caused by camera while filming?
I have a video clip which shows clouds in a sunset and it lasts half an hour. During that time the light conditions changed and my camera (Fuji X-e1) tried to compensate the changes of exposure. In ...
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Recommendable production codecs for Adobe video products
I'm currently searching for new codecs that are better suited for production than the ones we are currently using. So far we used QuickTime Animation and PhotoJPEG. The latter always proved as ...
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How can I accurately immitate this Picasa filter with Premiere's color correction filters?
I'm trying to color-correct a video I'm working on. This is an example frame from the footage:
Since I'm a newbie and pretty clueless about good-looking color correction, I've tried playing around ...
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